From Blagojevich to Harry Reid: Mr. Eye, meet Mr. Thumb

Well, well. How the wormed turns. Today Blago appointed a Black man, Roland Burris, to replace The Messiah after he ascends to the White House. By all accounts, Burris seems like he is qualified for the job. Did he pay Blago a bribe? We don't have anyway of knowing. Update Jan2: Others are now writing to reflect my views, as in this article as well as this article.

This was done despite the Senate Democrats telling Blago that they would refuse to seat anyone the he appointed. The state of Illinois is basically screwed here.

There are several problems here:

• Blago, at this point, is innocent of any crime (that whole, annoying, presumption of innocence thing)
  
• Blago is the governor
  
• Blago is not resigning
  
• Blago has the right, as the lawful governor, to make this appointment
  
• The Senate has no real, legal, reason to nullify the appointment.
  
• The Illinois legislature will take weeks or months to remove Blago
  
• There is no good legal remedy for this in the Illinois legal system.
  
• In the meantime, Illinois will have only one Senator
  
• If the senate does actually refuse to seat Mr. Burris (did I mention he was black?), they will have to answer to the NAACP, the Rainbow coalition, and every other group of race-baiting poverty pimps.
  
• Does any else see the hypocrisy of Reid who is also threatening to seat the idiot Franken before all the court challenges are settled? Just wondering
  

So much for the Republicans having a corner on the 'culture of corruption'. Mr. Reid - your move. Who is going to blink first?